Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

Bird of Paradise, a symbol of joyfulness.

"We rise by lifting others."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Happy Passover 2025!

 

Wishing you and your family a blessed celebration!

Saturday's Critters # 591

Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

 If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

I am sharing various images, the first photo my new header is a view of the Gunpowder River below the Prettyboy Dam, other images are from my walks and our backyard, the birds, critters and our dog Miney.

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1. March 2nd,  my mosaic has photos of the sunrise, a view of the reservoir from our local fire road, Miney the dog, a squirrel eating the bird food and a Carolina Chickadee on the birdbath ends with the sunset. 

2. March 2nd, the Gray Squirrels are regular visitors to our deck railing they manage to eat a lot of the suet nuggets I put out for the birds. 

3. March 2nd, one of my yard birds the Carolina Chickadee. 

4. March 5th, our morning walk with Miney on the local fire road. I heard the usual birds on this walk. I did see two Pileated Woodpeckers, flying away.  I missed getting their photo.

5. March 6th, we were back walking on the NCR rail to trail. It is one of our favorite spots for walking, easy flat walking we can go further and it is next to the river.

6. March 6th, on the way home from the bike trail we road past the Friendly Farms pond, I notice a flock of Ring-necked Ducks. 

7.  Flashback, since April 10th was Gopher Tortoise day. I am sharing some of Gopher Tortoise photos from our Florida trips. These are from Dec 2020, a St Augustine park. 

8. A Florida 2015 flashback, I am sharing another photo of the Gopher Tortoise hubby and saw at one of our many Florida park visits.

Another Florida flashback from April 2015, one of my favorite Florida birds seen was the Sora at the Viera Wetlands, Melbourne Florida, The Sora is a small bird in the rail family. The Sora has a yellow bill and walks through the wetlands similar to a chicken.

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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Happy Monday!

 Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

"May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace."

Kauai 2022, sunset

"Happiness is the sun setting over a beach."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 590

Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

 If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

Happy April, this is my first post for the month of April. The holidays we will celebrate during this month are April 12th Passover begins, April 20th is Easter Sunday, April 22nd is Earth Day and last but not least is April 25th is Arbor Day honor this day by planting a tree.

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1. The NCR rail trail, is popular for joggers, bike riders and people walking, lots of dog walkers. 

Feb 26th, NCR trail with Miney

2. Miney wanted everyone that went by to stop and say hello.  She is a friendly dog. 

3. Off the NCR trail I noticed these two Canada Geese. One look like it was sick or dead, it's partner seemed to by hanging close by.  I am wondering if the sick bird has the HPAI Avian flu. I was sad to hear they closed my favorite trail at the Susquehanna River, due to the large count of dead Vultures. The Avian flu is killing the vultures seen at the Conowingo Dam area. 

Feb 26th, a stop at the Prettyboy boat dock to see the Common Mergansers.

4. On the way home from our walk on the NCR bike trail we stopped at the Prettyboy Reservoir's boat ramp. If we are lucky we usually see some ducks hanging out nearby.  This day we saw a large flock of Common Mergansers and some Canada Geese. 

5. A closer look at the Canada Geese. 

6. Somewhat closer view of the Common Mergansers. The male has the white body and a green head. The female has a rufous colored head with greyish body.

7. Miney watching a jogger go by. 

8. From March 2017, during our 6months living in Florida we visited the Circle B Preserve at least once a week. It is a great place to see the birds, just watch out for the gators. Below seen off the Circle B trail I could see the Great Blue Heron with one of their chicks.

Another Circle B Preserve photo, we saw various Egrets, Ibis, Wood Storks, Roseate Spoonbills and Little Blue Heron. 

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

Here is my linky:

Thank you for sharing your critters and post!